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Quotes About Affection

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I am I because my little dog knows me.
~ Gertrude Stein
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
~ Edgar Guest
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
~ Charles Lamb
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
~ Henry Clay Trumbull
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
~ E. M. Forster
That was the first time I knew I loved him.
~ Kim Basinger
It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.
~ Unknown
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
~ Dalai Lama
Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Friendship buys friendship.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
~ Umberto Eco
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
~ Fanny Burney
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
~ Kenneth Lonergan
It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
~ Unknown
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
~ Unknown
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
~ Cicero